The Supreme Court - Different Truths

April 6, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Bengal Not Responding to Queries of Assam Government: Citizenship Verification Programme Slows Down

The need for Assam Government’s interaction with Bengal on the sensitive issue of citizens’ identification arose as many Bengali-speaking Hindus and Muslims in Assam claimed their Indian ancestry despite...

March 30, 2018
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Poem

Passive Euthanasia

Here’s a poem on passive euthanasia, which has been allowed by the Supreme Court, by Dr. Amrinder, for Different Truths. In case, I become a terminal case Do not...

March 27, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Mainstreaming Religious Politics can be Tricky

It is only now when the BJP has succeeded in exploiting the Congress’s mishandling of the secular concept that the latter is trying to erase the image of being...

March 26, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

SC Dilutes Scheduled Castes & Tribes Act Drastically: Country-Wide Demand for Immediate Judicial Correction

A shocking judgement of the Supreme Court on the Scheduled Castes & Tribes Act and a weekly round-up of the major decisions of the courts in India as also...

March 23, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Data Mining for Poll Started in India: Facebook can Influence, but to Limited Extent

It is possible to use Facebook data to influence Indian elections because India doesn’t have a data protection law. Therefore, anything that Cambridge Analytica does in India will be...

March 23, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, World

Resentment Brewing around PML(N) Succession: Opposition to the Daughter of Sharif is Growing

Enthronement of Maryam Nawaz, daughter of deposed Pak premier Nawaz Sharif, as his political heir apparent – as chief of Pakistan Muslim League (Navajo) – has peeled factional wrangling...

March 20, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Foreign Law Firms Prohibited from Setting Offices in India: Sanctity of the Advocates Act Upheld

Here’s a landmark judgement by the Apex Court on the foreign law firms setting offices in India and a weekly round-up of the major judgements from around the country...

March 20, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Political Equations are in Flux Ahead of Assembly and Lok Sabha Polls

The Congress President Rahul Gandhi said that the week-long AICC plenary session could pit ‘encompassing Indian ethos’ as the political, ideological and social moorings of Congress to counter ‘sectarian...

March 12, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Supreme Court Finally Upholds Right to Die with Dignity: Living Wills Recognised and Guidelines Framed

A path-breaking judgement of the Supreme Court recognises the right to die with dignity as a Fundamental Right and other major judgements from various courts of India. Here’s a...

March 10, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Ensuring Dignity in Life and Death Selectively: Majority of Indians Live in Wretched Conditions

Perhaps more significant is the part of the verdict that deals with a distressed person’s right to end life voluntarily. As a first step towards giving judicial support to...

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